Word: chamberlaine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week ancient Eddie Moore, still on Kennedy's personal pay roll, was too busy with his boss even to play golf on Sunday. Kennedy sat in shirt sleeves at his desk, grabbing by turns at the three phones at his left, talking to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, to Lord Halifax, to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to Franklin Roosevelt. As he always does, Kennedy worked with windows thrown wide, coat tossed on a rack, vest draped over a chair, the sleeves of his hard-collared shirt rolled over his freckled forearms, tugging his black suspenders, cussing, grumbling incoherently...
...London, Chamberlain told Parliament...
...London Chamberlain reported to the House of Commons on his ultimatum: "No reply has been received. If the German Government should agree . . . His Majesty's Government would be willing to regard the position as being the same as it was before the German forces crossed the frontier...
...from 10 Downing St., Mr. Chamberlain broadcast in a tired monotone to the British people: "This country is at war with Germany. . . . May God bless you all and may He defend the right...
...Earl's Court to General Evangeline Booth, for which 25,000 tickets had been sold. >At the domed Church of the Sacred Heart on Paris' Montmartre, Cardinal Verdier blessed the overflow crowd kneeling on the steps. >Arrested for trying to deliver a Bible to Prime Minister Chamberlain, one Robert Edmund Harrison, 29, pleaded not guilty to the charge of obstructing a policeman...